Crysis 3 tweaked to run at 8K resolution

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Whenever a new, high performance PC appears on the market the question of whether or not it will run Crysis usually pops up in comments somewhere on the Internet. It’s true that in order to experience the Crysis games as they were meant to be played, and at their most visually stunning, requires a very powerful rig. However, some gamers are pushing those visuals well beyond even what Crytek imagined.

The latest in the Crysis series of games is Crysis 3, which was released in February last year. With 4K monitors now a thing you can own, it makes sense that some gamers would build a rig capable of running the game at 4K resolution (3840 x 2160). But even that isn’t high enough for some, and one gamer, going by the Reddit name of K-putt, did some tweaking to achieve 8K visuals.

Achieving a resolution of 7680 x 4320 meant adjusting the draw distance of the game, creating a custom executable to enable the resolution as an option, and a cheat to allow for free camera movement so as to best position the camera for some choice captures. Of course, at 8K on current (performance) hardware, K-putt had the game running at 2fps. That’s fine because his aim was to capture some screenshots, not play it.

We’ve included a couple of his screen captures here, but you can see the full set at full resolution over on his Flickr page. The game looks gorgeous at 8K and gives us some idea of what all games will look like in future. Because today 8K seems insane, but you know that in a decade it will be a standard resolution and whatever the next (or the next next) console generation turns out to be will probably support it.